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May 4, 2022

By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert Project operators recently explained unprecedented emergency plans for cold-water temperature management to support endangered salmon...

THE CONVERSATION: Western river compacts were innovative in the 1920s but couldn’t foresee today’s water challenges

The Conversation

Colorado River

May 4, 2022

By Patricia J. Rettig, Colorado State University The Western U.S. is in a water crisis, from California to Nebraska. An ongoing...

CORNELL CHRONICLE: Western municipal water restraints rise as reservoirs fall

Cornell University

Colorado River

May 4, 2022

By Blaine Friedlander, Cornell University As water restrictions tighten in Southern California in anticipation of summer, the Southwestern United States...

EOS: Assessing Water Infrastructure Investments in California

American Geophysical Union

Policy and regulation

May 4, 2022

Exploratory modeling in California’s Central Valley indicates that evaluating the costs, benefits, and risks to individual providers is necessary to...

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Study develops framework for forecasting contribution of snowpack to flood risk during winter storms

Desert Research Institute

Planning and management

May 3, 2022

New research advances effort to create a decision-support tool for reservoir operators and flood managers From the Desert Research Institute:...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Feds to take water from Wyoming to bolster Lake Powell

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

May 3, 2022

Akin to robbing Peter to pay Paul, the feds say the influx of water into Lake Powell is necessary to...

CENTRAL VALLEY WATER BOARD: CV-SALTS program to focus on enforcement

Maven

Agriculture Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

May 3, 2022

“You can’t just dare the board to come after you. You have to pay your fees, and you have to...

UPDATE: Delta Stewardship Council denies appeal of Lookout Slough project

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

May 2, 2022

At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council during a public hearing, the Council voted to deny the appeal...

MONTHLY RESERVOIR REPORT for May 1

Robert Shibatani

Current Conditions

May 2, 2022

The rains that bring May flowers sort of fizzled after what looked momentarily promising… Across California, federal CVP reservoir storage...

STATELINE: Climate Change is Pushing Toxic Chemicals into Drinking Wells

Stateline

Groundwater News Water quality Wildfires and watersheds

April 28, 2022

By Erika Bolstad, Stateline Don Myron is probably best known as the guy who survived one of the deadliest fires...

STATE WATER BOARD: PFAS in California

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

April 28, 2022

Staff presents results from the ongoing statewide PFAS investigations Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (or PFAS) are a group of manufactured...

CAL MATTERS: 6 million Southern Californians face unprecedented order to conserve water

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

April 27, 2022

By Rachel Becker, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Unprecedented water restrictions are...